Substituting for Heaven to Shepherd the People, Huang Tian, Huang Tian-Could It Be a Meme?

A curio capable of curing every disease in the world!

Its immense value needed no explanation.

Whether someone used it to treat powerful figures in exchange for money and influence or kept it for themselves, getting hold of it would be a tremendous prize.

That was, provided Guo Yan really had such a curio.

Through row upon row of trees, the burly man with triangular eyes stared at the little country house at the end of the village.

The front gate stood half-open. In the courtyard, a man in his forties reclined in a lounge chair. Warm sunlight poured over him, and he narrowed his eyes in pleasure.

To his right stood a small red square tea table bearing a clear glass teapot, a porcelain cup, and a fruit plate filled with dried fruit and snacks.

"Now this is the life." Guo Yan crossed his legs and smiled. "I went into the city yesterday and poisoned that Sun Yuan. He'll come begging in a few days. How much should I squeeze out of him then? A little boss worth forty or fifty million ought to cough up a million or so, right?

"And that beautiful CEO of Leap Company, heh. I'll make her crawl into my bed—"

He patted the armrest with his right hand, chuckled, and hummed a few lines from an opera.

"Get ready. I'll tie him up first. Then you work him over until he hands over the curio." The triangular-eyed man took a yellow rope from his waist as he gave the order.

"Understood!" his three subordinates replied.

The triangular-eyed man led them slowly out of the woods. When they were about twenty meters from Guo Yan's courtyard, he flung out his right hand. "Go!"

The yellow rope unfurled in the wind and shot into the